Personal Study

Personal study

Day Two: Your Scholar playing in the leaves with friends

I don’t know if “set the leaves in the yard you were supposed to be gathering up on fire to make roasted sweet potatoes” but that’s more or less what panned out here. You can see in the bg @lycanicnovelist and @cottonandpennies ‘s Scholars doing the traditional ‘play’.

Tadashi’s having an internal conniption over whether to yell at these guys for setting things on fire or to go on over and get some good ole yakiimo like the Japanese man he is.

Update: He got his potato.

Day 7: Your Scholar as a Child

I had radical perspective I swear, this wasn’t just bad anatomy. THEN I put in a straight set of doors and…there it went. Woosh.

Here’s Megan as a baby! Before they told her the Asian girl couldn’t be Aurora, she had to be Mulan. I’m gettin tired cranking out so fast I think, lots of errors in this one, so I better save day 8 for tomorrow.

Tell me I’m wrong.

Oh final note! I made the mistake of drawing her with brown eyes–I forgot Megan actually has blue-to-periwinkle dark eyes, so I went back and edited any old pic of her with colored in eyes! 

Hey art guys, here’s a tip: Reverse storyboarding.

Watch a movie that you really like the art or composition of, and whenever the camera angle, viewpoint, or characters actions/interactions change noticeably, pause the movie and draw a little sketch of what you see. It doesn’t have to be gorgeous. This is just for you. Get down the layout of the composition, the placement and gestures of characters, or the lighting or color that is used to make that particular moment in time express that particular moment in the story.

You don’t have to pay anyone to teach you to do this. You are paying yourself forward. Your future art self will thank you for taking the time now to study masterfully created compositions, gestures, light/shadow, and settings/scenery. Think of how much your own compositions, gestures, use of light and shadow, and settings and scenery will improve!  

And plus you get to watch a movie you love.  <3 

Hey @ariaqueiroz I don’t know you but just so you know? You’re an absolute babe  💖 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖

Day 1: Your Scholar in a Costume

Megan, my Scholar, is a big ass nerd (surprise surprise.) She spent 60 bucks on this store bought version just to spend another 100 going in and manually re-detailing this thing. 

Gotta love perfectionists.

Special thanks to @cottonandpennies for, basically, my life?? Tablets are new and scary and Nemo is warm and squishy. There’s some life wisdom for you.